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October 2006
Bridging the Digital Divide
Two new reports have highlighted the growth of the “digital divide” between Spanish-speaking minority students and English-speaking white students in the U.S. As Diana Laurillard makes clear in her article...
December 2006
A Promising Start
For a change, education policy was not top of the agenda during last month’s Congressional elections, but the Democrats success in gaining control of both the House of Representatives and the Senate...
Spanish on a Global Scale
Language Magazine journeys to the places around the globe where Spanish can best be learned
There are as many reasons to learn Spanish as there are places to learn it:
Spanish is spoken by at least...
Spanish on a Global Scale
Language Magazine journeys to the places around the globe where Spanish can best be learned
There are as many reasons to learn Spanish as there are places to learn it:
Spanish is spoken by at least...
April 2007
Support the Paul Simon Act
The goal of having a million Americans studying abroad every year (see page 24) may seem superfluous to many in a nation where many children struggle to receive a basic...
February 2008
An Educational Stimulus
It now seems inevitable that the U.S. economy will go into recession over the next year. Economic analysts will disagree about the causes, its severity and its duration, but one thing we...
March 2008
Redrawing the Political Langscape
Now that the Republicans have chosen their Presidential candidate and the Democratic contest is reaching its climax, political analysts across America are searching for demographic indicators to help predict the...
April 2008
Entrepreneurial Educators
As the specter of recession looms large in government accounting offices nationwide, and lawmakers, confronted with the “unexpected” prospect of diminishing tax revenues, are slashing education budgets with abandon, the only real surprise...
June 2006
English: Officially National
The U.S. Senate has passed its version of the latest immigration bill with Senator Inhofe’s so-called "national" English amendment, which would make English the "official" language of the U.S. in everything but...
July 2006
Linguistic Liberty
Last month saw the 30th anniversary of the Soweto uprising which eventually led to the dismantling of apartheid in South Africa. The often ignored trigger for the uprising was the Afrikaans Medium Decree...
